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Visita Guadalcanal

The Ermita San Benito

Description

This chapel is a Mudejar construction, perhaps dating from the first half of the 15th century.

It consists of a nave covered by a barrel vault with lunettes, a spherical cap in the antepresbytery and a dome in the chapel. On the gospel wall there is a doorway with a pointed arch and on the epistle wall there is a late Mudejar doorway.

In 1494, this hermitage was visited by the Order of Santiago, which made a report of all its functioning, in which it is said that there was a Brotherhood of both sexes with the title of Our Lady of Consolation and Saint Benedict.

This Brotherhood disappeared after the invasion of the French at the beginning of the 19th century, leaving the hermitage almost in ruins.

In a new attempt at rehabilitation, on 24th March 1886, a Brotherhood was founded under the title of the “Divine Blood of Our Lord Jesus  Christ”, of which the current image of the Cristo de la Humildad (Lord seated on the Rock) formed part. This image is the oldest one that is  carried in procession during Holy Week in Guadalcanal, as it was hidden in the well of the hermitage in 1936.

Until the 1920s, pilgrims came to this hermitage on pilgrimages. On the 21st of March, the Señor Sentado en la Peña and the Virgen de los Dolores were taken to the church of Santa María and returned on Easter Sunday.

On 11th April 1977 it was sold to Antonio Fontán Pérez.

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